Westland Writes ... Poetry reading date set

We will be hosting a poetry reading for the Westland Writes ... Poetry book. It will be in the library on Thursday, May 21st at 6 p.m. (if the library looks like it is closed, that is true. This will be a special "after hours" event for all of our poets and their families and friends)

I am trying to get all of the contributors to confirm (so far, I have 12 and am waiting on 8 others). Everyone who has contributed will receive a book, too- if we get to hear you read it, so much better!

Hope to see you Thursday!

p.s. If you're looking for a new book of poetry to read, I would recommend two recent ones that I have read: Patricia Smith's "Blood Dazzler" which takes on various personas involved in the Hurricane Katrina disaster and puts them to beautiful ends in mainly rhyming poems; and Paul Guest's "My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge", which reads like a cross between the Beat poets (Ginsberg kind of but closer to Ferlinghetti and Corso) and the New York poets (O'Hara's off the cuff, first-person sentiments with Ashberry's abstractness). Check them out!